The Hussy: Galore (Southpaw, 2015)

Male/female garage rock duo from Madison, WI. Not as back-to-basics as you might expect for a garage rock duo, there’s acoustic guitars and shakers and synths and other layered instruments. “Channeling Spiral Stairs” is a straight-up Pavement homage with violin for some reason, and it actually works really well. “Darkness” also has violin and it’s kind of slower and gothier, and that works surprisingly well too. Most of this band’s songs are pretty short (a minute or two long, except “My Bad” which is over 4) so they try out an idea and move on to the next one and I like that.